Portal:Current events/2019 February 6
February 6, 2019 (Wednesday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 Anchorage earthquake
- Two aftershocks strike Anchorage, Alaska, the first a magnitude 4.1, and the second a magnitude 3.7, occurring 23 minutes later. (Anchorage Daily News)
- Heavy rain hits Rio de Janeiro, leaving three people dead and two missing. (G1)
- Fourteen people were killed and fourteen others are injured when an eight-story apartment building collapsed in Istanbul, Turkey. (BBC)
Health and environment
- 2019 Philippines measles outbreak
- The Philippines Department of Health declares a measles outbreak attributed to the drop in trust in vaccines due to the Dengvaxia controversy. (The Philippine Star)
International relations
- Accession of Macedonia to NATO
- In Brussels, an accession protocol for joining NATO is signed between Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO, and Nikola Dimitrov, foreign minister of the Republic of Macedonia. (The Washington Post)
- 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, Colombia–Venezuela relations
- The Venezuelan National Guard blocks off a bridge on the Colombia–Venezuela border with a tanker truck. The Venezuelan opposition had been planning to use the bridge to bring humanitarian aid into the country, while President Nicolás Maduro has rejected foreign aid, saying "we're not a nation of beggars". (BBC) (Daily Star)
Law and crime
- Game law
- In a landmark decision, the Constitutional Court of Colombia rules to ban recreational hunting, citing environmental protection concerns. (El Tiempo)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Guatemalan general election
- The Attorney General filed a request to withdraw immunity to the presidential candidate of National Unity of Hope, former First Lady Sandra Torres, for alleged crimes of illicit electoral financing. Torres said it was a political persecution of the former Attorney General and presidential candidate Thelma Aldana. (The Washington Post)